Princess Luna: "Do so, Pinkie Pie - meanwhile, I have unfinished business with my FORMER Night Guard. Tis' not the last time some over-enthusiastic servant took trinklets from us to keep, but this had gone TOO FAR! He shall know my judgement!"

Doctor Whooves: [raises an eyebrow] "'Everyone', not 'everypony? And what was that about 'breaking walls'?"

Pinkie Pie: [Smirks] "You'll see...c'mon, follow me!"

[They both run off, the Doctor still confused, Pinkie still smirking]

====Later that night:====

[Princess Luna twists in the air to avoid a swath of magic bolts from the Night Guard, who takes the split-second distraction to jump into the shadow of a tree and vanish.]

Princess Luna: "Blast it; face me you coward! This insanity has gone on for hours, and it is NOT worth avoiding punishment over an abacus...even MY abacus!! FACE ME LIKE A STALLION!!"

[snarling, the Night Alicorn sweeps her gaze around the forest from above, looking for where the fleeing Night Guard emerged from his shadow-teleport.]

Elite Night Guard: [running pell-mell away from Luna, staying quiet and stealthy as can be] "All this for an abacus?!? Of all the ludicrous--"

[Unfortunately, the fleeing Night Guard was too focused on simply escaping to notice the sprinting, bipedal figure that slipped in beside him, until he catches a flash of metal off to his side, then...]

*WHACK!*

???: "BONK!"

[something metalic and blunt hits the Guard square in the head, sending him flying into a tree, HARD.]

???: "Yeah, dat fancy armor of yours can't stop good old bat, can it pally?!? Dat was for makin' us stop the party!"

[The Night Guard shakes his head clear, then looks up at his assailant as he gets to his hooves, ready to charge. But then he falters,]